{"id":27254,"date":"2015-09-16T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=27254"},"modified":"2015-09-16T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T04:30:28","slug":"goodbye-adam-purple-a-legendary-gardnerbiker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2015\/09\/16\/goodbye-adam-purple-a-legendary-gardnerbiker\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Adam Purple  -A Legendary Gardner\/Biker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Adam Purple, Legendary Gardner 84 is Dead &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/thevillager.com\/2015\/09\/15\/adam-purple-legendary-gardener-84-is-dead-was-biking-across-williamsburg-bridge\/\"> Was Biking Across Williamsburg Bridge <\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adam Purple and The Garden of Eden\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/29275235?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Purple\">Adam Purple <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adam Purple (died September 15, 2015) was an activist and urban Edenist or &#8220;Guerrilla Gardener&#8221; famous in New York City from the seventies to the present day. His name at birth was David Wilkie, though he&#8217;s gone by many others, including the Rev. Les Ego.<\/p>\n<p>He is often considered the godfather of the urban gardening movement, and his &#8220;Garden of Eden&#8221; was a well-known garden on the Lower East Side of Manhattan until it was demolished in January 1986 to make way for low-income housing.[3][5][6][7] He is one of fifty subjects featured in Harvey Wang&#8217;s New York, a book of photographs and brief biographies of notable and colorful New Yorkers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See photo of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lawrence.swan2\/posts\/10206719125669510?pnref=story\"> Adam by Lawrence Swan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Purple, Legendary Gardner 84 is Dead &#8211; Was Biking Across Williamsburg Bridge Adam Purple Adam Purple (died September 15, 2015) was an activist and urban Edenist or &#8220;Guerrilla Gardener&#8221; famous in New York City from the seventies to the present day. His name at birth was David Wilkie, though he&#8217;s gone by many others, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2015\/09\/16\/goodbye-adam-purple-a-legendary-gardnerbiker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye Adam Purple  -A Legendary Gardner\/Biker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}